What is Regular Verb? Definition and Regular Verbs List Past and Past Participle Form

What is Regular Verb? Definition and Regular Verbs List Past and Past Participle Form

Regular Verbs

It is necessary to learn the second and third forms of verbs to use the past and perfect tense types, which are used quite frequently in English, correctly. Although it is necessary to memorize all irregular verbs, you do not need to memorize such regular verbs. You only need to know the rules of regular verb formation to arrange all regular verbs in English in the past tense or perfect tense.

How to Form a Regular Verb

If you aim to describe events or situations that happened in the past, you need to use the past tense or the perfect tense. However, since the verbs in these tenses have to be the second and third forms of the verb, you should learn the rules of arranging these verbs. Suffixes for regular verbs are -d, -ed, and -ied, but you cannot place these suffixes randomly. Here are the rules on how to place these attachments:

• If the verb you want to change into its second form ends in a consonant, it takes the -ed suffix. For example:

added, afforded, alerted, annoyed, allowed, answered, arrested, attacked, avoided, blessed, boiled, booked, borrowed, bushed, called, collected, complained, concerned, connected, contained, decayed, delivered, depended, destroyed, embarrassed, ended, entertained, explained, failed, feared, floated, flowed, followed, hammered, hunted, interested, interrupted, joined, jumped, knocked, kneeled, laughed, lifted, melted, mixed, needed, obtained, offered, performed, printed, punished, questioned, reminded, rushed, sealed, shocked, touched, thanked, visited, waited, walked, warmed, whispered

• If the letter at the end of your verb is the letter e, you should only add the suffix -d to your verb. For example:

advised, agreed, baked, balanced, breathed, behaved, calculated, cared, caused, continued, dances, decided, described, encouraged, faced, hoped, ignored, increased, interfered, joked, lied, liked, loved, managed, noted, observed, paused, prepared, reduced, refused, retired, scraped, saved, shaved, tasted, tired, used, wiped

• If there is the letter y at the end of the verb and there is a consonant letter before this letter y, the letter y of this verb will be deleted. You should add -ied to this verb after the letter y is deleted. For example:

buried, carried, dried, emptied, fancied, fried, hurried, identified, married, relied, satisfied, terrified, tried, untidied, worried

• You should look at the last three letters of the verb you want to edit. If the last letter of the verb is a consonant, the second last letter is a vowel and the last letter is a consonant, the next consonant is repeated and the suffix -ed is added to this verb. For example:

admitted, batted, clapped, chopped, dammed, dripped, fitted, flapped, grabbed, hopped, jammed, mugged, nodded, occurred, planed, plugged, robbed, lipped, stopped, tapped, whipped, zipped

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